Elena Asins

Elena Asins (Madrid, 1940- Azpíroz, Navarra, 2015)  artist, writer, lecturer and art critic, was born in Madrid in 1940. She studied in the School of Fine Arts in Paris, in the University of Stuttgart (Semiotics with professor Max Bense) in the Complutense University in Madrid ( Centre of Calculus) in the New School for Social Research (New York) and in the Columbia University (Department of Computer Science: Computer Art), where she was invited as Visiting Scholar for the investigation of the digital application in the plastic arts (computer art).

She has performed more than 40 individual exhibitions in different countries and has written and published publications specialized in art and aesthetic, in Spain, France, Germany and the United States.

Her work is remarkable mainly for her rigor and coherence, for her independence of the fashion or the interests of the art market. Her two-dimensional and three-dimensional works can be found both in museums, private and public collections and in art investors. She has been awarded seven scholarships of national and international status and she has given numerous courses and lectures on Contemporary Art in different universities and cultural centres.

Elena Asins was awarded the Medalla de Oro al Merito en las Bellas Artes in 2006 by the King and Queen of Spain.

One of her most important contributions has been her research on computing in art, where she was pioneer in 1967 and where she is still studying with conceptual contributions, based on algorithms. The last contributions of Elena Asins to the ìquestions posed by the plastic artsî are aimed at the concept of the town planning as aesthetics and as a necessity, at the concept of architecture as an essential art and at the aesthetic intercession in space and time.